Shredder guard child safety shield

ABSTRACT

Shredder Guard Child Safety Shield was designed to allow for additional height before paper enters cutter area of various brands and manufactures of the product know as paper shredder crosscut or strip type. This feature is necessary to insure an addition in height so Childs fingers or hand are not pulled into insertion area resulting in injury from shredder blades. A guard made of clear plastic material semi ridged in flexibility having a flanged bottom for mounting to existing paper shredders and to be high enough as to not allow Childs fingers or hand to be pulled into cutter or sometimes referred to as shredder blades. The clear plastic construction material will also allow for easy view of objects not wanted entering feed area resulting in damage to shredder.

Shredder Guard is designed to attach to top portion of the average sizepersonal home paper shredder witch accepts eight and one-half inch widesheets of paper. It consists of a clear plastic composite to allow forfull view of objects entering shredder feed area. It will attach to topof your existing paper shredder with double faced tape and will haveholes in lower flange area near ends to add screws for stability ifrequired. It was designed to protect Childs fingers and hand from beingpulled into cutter heads and prevent from injury as a result of.

SPECIFICATIONS: (SHREDDER GUARD CHILD SAFETY SHIELD)

The invention consists of a clear transparent plastic material aproximally one-sixteenth inch in thickness and ten and one-half inchesin length three inches in width and two and one-half inches at lowerflange.

Lower flange area at the bottom that will attach to the top of any modelpaper shredder with a top surface that measures at least ten andone-half inches in width.

Above the lower flanged area is an upper raised area with radius cornerswith a width of two inches at base of flange and a width of one inch atupper portion of feed area.

Feed area will have a eight and three-quarters inch long by three-eightsinch in width opening protruding down the center to bottom flangesurface with a eight and three-quarters inch long by one-half inch widthat bottom referred to as the feed tube.

The center paper feed tube will be reinforced on both sides with threeribs that are molded from feed tube wall to inner wall of outer surfacewith a thickness sufficient enough to allow stability and will protrudefrom bottom flange to inner most upper surface.

The flange surface will be smooth at bottom flange to allow for properadhesion with double-faced tape to secure GUARD to paper shredderhousing.

DRAWINGS

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS: The present invention will be understoodand appreciated more fully from the flowing detailed description takenin conjunction with the drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a simplified perspective-view showing as to its dimensions andposition when attached.

FIGS. 2 and 3 is a simplified side-view and end-view as to inventionknown as guard.

FIGS. 4 and 5 is a simplified top-view and bottom-view as to inventionknown as guard.

1. A safety device known as guard for paper shredders having a top feeddevice to accept paper no wider than eight and one-half inches in widthand not limited to length witch shreds paper in cross-cut or stripmethod.
 2. Said guard is designed to extend the height of the area knownas paper feed entrance as to allow Childs fingers not to be pulled intocutter blades.
 3. A safety device attachment for paper shredders knownas guard in reference to drawings and Child Safety feature protectionresulting in injury there of.
 4. The safety device of claim 2 as toextension of height of guard to perform the safety feature intended ofsaid attachment known as guard.